Example sentences of "can [adv] be [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shallow metaphors and deep metaphors require inferencing to access the metaphoric domains , and can thus be termed invisible metaphors ( an example would be I love the sun , taken to be an utterance of Romeo referring to Juliet ) . |
| 2 | Questions concerning productivity and technical change , the efficiency of investment , likely future trends in employment and output , the consequences of the energy crises and the effect of tax and financial incentives can not be given meaningful answers until reliable estimates of micro level technological parameters have been obtained . |
| 3 | Butterflyfish can normally be considered good members of an aquarium community , as they are not usually attacked by other fish . |
| 4 | Although Wordsworth 's own children , together with Basil Montagu and Hartley Coleridge , can hardly be called unqualified successes in their later life , this does not undermine Wordsworth 's ideas , which anticipate the freedom of modern infant teaching . |
| 5 | The number of institutions in London which can reasonably be considered private banks seems to have doubled in the fifty years between 1725 and 1775 to reach fifty-two . |
| 6 | Standard thin sections required for teaching collections or archive purposes can now be given self-adhesive labels on which can be written all the details of the sample . |